The crow scurried away with upturned, threatening head, the furious kingbirds fairly upon his back.
For several previous summers a pair of kingbirds had reared, unmolested, a brood of young in an apple-tree, only a few yards from the house; but during this season disaster overtook them also.
I would rather stretch myself out on the grass and watch yonder pair of kingbirds carrying luscious flies to their young ones in the nest, or chasing away the marauding crow with shrill cries of anger.
The kingbirdsare not afraid of him, knowing that he is a coward at heart.
The young kingbirds were sweet and chatty among themselves, and they decidedly approved the berries; but they never lost sight of each other, and kept close together, the little company of three, as I have seen other kingbirds do.
The kingbirds did not follow beyond their own borders, and the robin soon returned to the nearest tree, where she kept up the taunting "he!
This time both kingbirds flung themselves after her, and she left, "laughing" as she went.
Close before me was a beautiful hawthorn-tree, in which a pair of kingbirds had long ago built their nest.
For several days it seemed uncertain whether thekingbirds would ever really occupy the nest, so spasmodic was the work upon it.
So remarkable was the effect upon them that I have no doubt a mob of kingbirdscould be brought together by its means.
There was "Riot of roses and babel of birds, All the world in a whirl of delight," when the three baby kingbirdsopened their eyes to the June sunlight.
I greatly wished to stay and see the result, for I had confidence enough in the bravery of the kingbirds to be sure that the end was not yet.
The kingbirds chased flies, the orioles searched the fruit trees for insects.
Kingbirds are the knights-errant of the feathered tribes.
Two kingbirds have built their nest between our house and the mill- pond.
This fixes the date of the entry in the early summer of 1817, for kingbirds are not belligerent except during the nesting season.
A pair of kingbirds had built a nest on a low branch of an apple-tree; and in the nest were two little baby-birdies.
Josie and her mamma walked slowly along, not knowing how angry the kingbirds were getting, until they came to the apple-tree.
So they collected over two hundred kingbirds from different parts of the country, examined their stomachs and found bees--mostly drones--in only fourteen.
The fences and wayside apple-trees are lively with kingbirds and phoebes.
Then two kingbirds happened to alight in the apple-tree.
Two more kingbirdscoming to the relief of the fleeing eagle.
The crippled eagle had loyal kingbirds for protectors, and they had plunged, pecking, at the Camel pursuing their leader.
These Kingbirds are model parents, devoted in brooding and courageous in defense.
A bee-keeper in California was curious on this point and dissected over a hundred specimens of Western Kingbirds and Phoebes, using a microscope in the examination of stomach contents.
Of these the Kingbirdsenjoy a practical monopoly by reason of their confidence in man.
They had all the ease and grace of Tree Swallows, but proved to be Kingbirdspractising in a new role.
It is not unusual for Kingbirds to be on the best of terms with their immediate neighbors, thieves always excepted.
But his favorite pets are a pair of kingbirds and a crow, which are allowed to run at large all the time.
During the afternoon, as the boys sat on the piazza in front of the house, talking over the events of the morning, their attention was attracted by a combat that was going on between one of Frank's pet kingbirds and a red-headed woodpecker.
The kingbirds were completely outwitted; and, after making two or three angry darts at the hole in which their cunning enemy had taken refuge, they settled down on the branches close by to wait until he should show himself.
The next moment the woodpecker flew out, and the kingbirds were after him in an instant They followed him until he reached the woods, and then returned to the cottage.
There were robins and bluebirds and kingbirds and bobolinks and brown thrashers and catbirds and meadow larks and woodpeckers and wrens, and all the other birds of the forest.
You complained of the robins and the bluebirds; the kingbirds and the brown thrashers; the bobolinks and the meadow larks; the crows and the blackbirds.
The kingbirds eat not only our fruit, but our honeybees as well.
I take them at random from my notes: Kingbirds kill bot-flies.
From the time of their arrival in May until they leave us in August, Kingbirds are much in evidence in farmyards and orchards.
One evening I counted one hundred and fifteen kingbirdsroosting in the tapering spires of the tamarack trees.
Kingbirds perch at a point of vantage and watch their chance for a dash at a grasshopper.
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